The article features Kumon, a Japanese educational services provider. Japanese high school teacher Toru Kumon conceived a prototype learning method in 1954 which is now known as the Kumon Method. The first overseas Kumon Center opened in New York in 1974, employing the methods of individualized instruction, provision of worksheets designed with goals, and encouragement of learning in children, in the same way teacher Toru Kumon taught his son.